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CCCLXXXI.—SUGAR-CANE DISEASE. 
( Continuation.) 
The Boch communication is printed in continuation of the infor- 
mation EM n the articles in the Kew Bulletin for July 1893, and 
March last : 
Roxan GARDENS, Kew, to COLONIAL OFFICE, 
Sin, Royal Gardens, Kew, March 12, 1894. 
I E the honour to inform you that I have received a copy of 
the Supiplernstit to the Leeward Islands’ Gazette for January 11, 1894, 
containing * A Report on sepe affecting the Sugar-cane in Bar hados,” 
m Mr. C. A. Barber, F.L.S., the Superintendent of Agriculture. 
In this paper, on p. 108, Mr. Barber states :— The fungus 
= (Trichospharie a, which is the cause of the most serious disease) has 
* been detected i in specimens in the Kew Herbarium forty years old 
* from € € Indies, and we may therefore at once assume that it 
** is no recent importation." I think it is important to point out, for 
/ the ifoimaión of e West Indian Governments interested in the 
matter, that this statement is founded on a mistake. ‘There is no 
evidence at Kew of the existence of this partieular disease in the West 
Indian sugar-tields prior to 1892. There is a specimen at Kew of sugar- 
cane, collected in rege forty years ago, attac ed by the moth- borer, 
and this may be what Mr. Barber has in his mind. 
3. The evidence, i in my opinion, goes to show that the Trichospheria 
has mad appearance quite recently i in the West Indies, and I have 
little doubt aie t it has been introduced from the Old World. The im- 
portance of clearly recognising the actual fact can hardly be over-rated. 
It is obvious that if the disease has existed comparatively unnoticed in 
the West Indies 2 forty years, it is unlikely to suddenly assume ihe 
démesneità ns of a scourge. If, on the other hand, it is a comparatively 
recent introduction, Me possibilities of the misehief it may etfeet have 
still to be measure m, &e. 
h (Signed) W. T. THISELTON-DYER. 
Edward Tepen Esq., C.B 
Colonial Office, Downing Street, S.W. 
CCCLXXXII.—NEW ORCHIDS. DECADE 8. 
urothallis inflata, Rolfe ; caule erecto tereti, foliis lanceolatis 
Miis floribus solitariis pedicellatis, bracteis tubulosis apice obli- 
quis acutis, sepalo postico lanceolato acuto, lateralibus connatis inflato- 
ventrieosis apice minutissime bidenticulatis, petalis ovato-lanceolatis 
acuminatis, labello late cordato AR infra medium — auriculis 
erectis disco laevi, columna brevi clay. 
Hazs.—United States of ovata: 
Caules 6-8 poll. alti. Folia 5-6 poll. longa, R poll. lata. Pedi- 
celli 1- “1h poll. longi. Bractee 3 lin. longæ. Sepala 6-7 lin. longa. 
Petala 53 lin. longa. Labellum 2 lin. longum, 21 fin. latum. Columna 
1} lin. longa. 
ies was introduced by Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. 
Albans, with whom it flowered in September 1891, and Mdbibquendy at 
